Music

With Raleighwood Fest 2025, the founders of the homegrown, Carolina-first music festival are dreaming bigger while doubling down on their roots.

The landscape around the Durham grill—home to a mélange of dancers, barbecue lovers, and musicians—has changed drastically over the past fifteen years. But the music hasn’t stopped playing.

The fifteenth annual Hopscotch will take place in downtown Raleigh, September 4-6, with a mix of local acts like Superchunk and Fust and far-flung acts like Yeule and Nilüfer Yanya.

Below the serene, warm surface of “Rituals,” Watchhouse has put out another album filled with rich experimentation and boundary-pushing creativity.

Two years after leaving the Swedish heavy metal band Ghost, the Wilmington musician is bringing her fever dream symphonies to the stage. She plays in Raleigh on June 19.

A Durham record label keeps an open line with fans at its modest Holland Street pop-up—record store, retail shop, and collaborative creative nucleus, all in one. 

Raleigh Wide Open’s debut festival, held downtown October 3-4, will feature 35 free shows across six stages. 

Community, crafts, and music drew a crowd of 6,000 to Rock Quarry Park for Durham’s lively annual celebration of African and African American history.

With songs like “King Trump” and “Misinformation Disinformation,” Duncan Christy says he hopes to draw attention to events unfolding at the White House and beyond.

The charismatic co-proprietor of Weatherman Jewelers had plenty of punk-rock cred, as the mother of Corrosion of Conformity guitarist Woody Weatherman. But her umbrella of care extended to many.